Opposition figures will be sought among social media users in Yakutia.
Republican Center for Infocommunication Technologies of Yakutia I am ready to purchase a software package that provides 24/7 monitoring of social networks: VKontakte, LiveJournal, Telegram channels, and online media.
Corresponding auction posted on the State Procurement website. It was noticed by the Telegram channel "Tormoznoye Radio." The Center for Infocommunication Technologies is willing to pay for such a system. 1,2 million rubles.
According to the technical specifications, the system is designed to search for activists of protest movements, destructive, radical movements, and organizations, and to predict protests based on statistical data collected from social media.
The complex must also "to enable searches and collection of extremist publications, to record network connections between community activists, to search for user posts on a given topic by region, and to track the activity of groups and communities."
The program will sort all social media users by age, place of residence, and occupation.
When monitoring social networks VK A function must be provided for dividing all communities into opposition groups and pro-government groups. The data will be entered into a special database.
In addition, the complex must also ensure deanonymization of users Telegram, and also carry out hourly collection of publications from the manager's channels and groups set for monitoring.